Urbanization is the main contributor to

Click here to subscribe for full access. They make their homes using the shelter provided by the humans in the upper regions of homes, allowing for an influx in their populations due to added protection and reduced predator numbers. However, through the implementation of heat island reduction strategies, significant annual net energy savings have been calculated for northern locations such as Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Toronto.

The factors that lead to rural-urban migration are many. This decreases the albedo of the city and thereby magnifies the heating effect. There were also savings seen in the emissions, water, and maintenance categories.

However, we can say with considerable certainty that much of the current received wisdom will prove to be hopelessly wrong. They described this unequal distribution of trees as a demand for "luxury," rather than "necessity.

There are very strong direct and indirect interrelationships between urbanization and growth. Many sections of towns may be warmer than rural sites, but surface weather observations are likely to be made in park "cool islands. Our research indicates that this is a serious mistake, which has overemphasized the problems of megacities and seriously underestimated the urbanization problems of smaller cities for various reasons.

Even among those who define urbanization by population, some consider an area to be urban when the population exceeds 5, A desire for larger homes, more bedrooms and bigger yards is one of the causes of urban sprawl.

Accordingly, this assessment adds the same level of urban warming uncertainty as in the TAR: Calculations for several special cases as well as a sensitivity analysis are presented. Areas with substantial vegetation and reflective surface materials used for roofs of houses, pavement, and roads are proven to be more effective and cost efficient.

Green roofs are excellent insulators during the warm weather months and the plants cool the surrounding environment. Seasonally, UHI shows up both in summer and winter.

His paper surveys UHI and criticizes then-existing theories as being excessively qualitative. Inequality of tree canopy cover[ edit ] Relationship between neighborhood income and tree canopy cover In recent years, researchers have discovered a strong correlation between neighborhood income and tree canopy cover.

With a citywide implementation, added benefits from the lowering smog-level would result in at least one billion dollars of saving per year. The tall buildings within many urban areas provide multiple surfaces for the reflection and absorption of sunlight, increasing the efficiency with which urban areas are heated.

It allows states to include plans that meet the guidelines or plans that exceed expectations. Consequently, even now, Mexico City area does not have even half the population that was projected for in the early s.

Additionally, many blogging sites overlay satellite imagery provided by Google Maps and census data to confirm or debunk the aforementioned research. Popular plants grown for food include, chivesoregano and lavender these plants are suitable for green roofs because they are evolutionarily equipped for Mediterranean climate.

Image B is a thermal infrared image of same area, showing hot red and yellow and cool green and blue spots. This causes a change in the energy budget of the urban area, often leading to higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas.

The trading will create incentives to reduce the effects of climate change in California communities by reducing greenhouse gases through investments in clean technologies.

This policy takes a more of a community-based approach by adding several groups for the purpose of multiple perspectives and inventive approaches.

One reason is that urban areas are heterogeneous, and weather stations are often sited in "cool islands" — parks, for example — within urban areas.

Rapid population growth is a particularly large contributor to urban sprawl in the Western and Southern regions of the United States. Within the United States alone, an average of 1, people die each year due to extreme heat.

History[ edit ] The phenomenon was first investigated and described by Luke Howard in the s, although he was not the one to name the phenomenon.

For example, most Asian developing countries define urbanization by population; others use administrative declarations. With the temperature of the nearby buildings sometimes reaching over 50 degrees different from the near-surface air temperature, precipitation will warm rapidly, causing runoff into nearby streams, lakes and rivers or other bodies of water to provide excessive thermal pollution.

The increase in the thermal pollution has the ability to increase water temperature by 20 to 30 degrees.By Kim Samuel, Contributor President, Samuel Family Foundation Measuring and understanding these challenges at the urban scale is our best hope for success in improving the quality of people's lives in the places that most people live.

Urban Studies () 23, Factors of Urbanisation in the Nineteenth Century Developed Countries: A Descriptive and Econometric Analysis Paul Bairoch and Gary Goertz [First received January ; in final form October ] Summary. This paper describes the situation from the beginning of the industrial revolution when levels of.

The main contributor to risk? Rapid urbanization. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and 95% of global urban growth will occur in developing countries over the next 90 years. Rapid population growth is a particularly large contributor to urban sprawl in the Western and Southern regions of the United States.

In San Francisco, urban sprawl continues into Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties. Urbanization Is the Main Contributor to Disaster Occurrence in Developing Countries. Do You Agree?

included extreme weather brought about by climate change, as well as urbanization in vulnerable areas. Rapid urbanization thus becomes a major contributor to overcrowding, poverty and environmental degradation when the capacity of the community is insufficient to sustain a rapidly growing population.